It’s surprising to me that the New York Times even asks the question in its Room for Debate column this morning, inviting six guest authors and the Twitter community to weigh in. Suggesting that Facebook’s “worrisome IPO” begs the question, the headline is a bit misleading as you’d be hard-pressed to find even a hint […]

Invite participation. That’s today’s lesson from the NY Times. For a long time every media business – newspapers, magazines, ad agencies, broadcasters – operated with an us-and-them mentality. The “us” controlled the message and the distribution. The “we” received and consumed. Granted that model’s been dead or dying for a while now and most media […]

Matt Howell, who helped create the BDW Making Digital Work workshops, chats with me about where this is all going. Making Digital Work wrapped yesterday in NYC at the Art Director’s Club. It appears that 75 participants from Dubai to Los Angeles went home happy, motivated, filled with ideas and totally exhausted. A few of […]